Blue Coat Contracts in the South East

Blue Coat
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Blue Coat over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 220 260
Rank change year-on-year +39 +40 -56
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 18 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.069% 0.090%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £454 £335 £350
25th Percentile £455 £416 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £652
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -15.58% +34.33%
75th Percentile £558 £555 £706
90th Percentile £580 £558 £708
England median daily rate £460 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% +22.81%

All Vendors
South East

Blue Coat is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,640 2,906 3,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.58% 49.80% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,608 1,998 2,373
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £378 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £600
90th Percentile £688 £694 £675
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 126 138
10th Percentile £12.00 £18.08 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.24 £21.95 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.88 £36.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.94% +84.52% -4.55%

Blue Coat
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Blue Coat as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Blue Coat in the South East

Blue Coat
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Blue Coat in the South East

Blue Coat
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Blue Coat in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Blue Coat in the South East

Blue Coat
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +17 14 £543 +88.70%
Surrey - 12 £460 -
Thames Valley +18 8 - - 1
Berkshire - 8 - - 1
Blue Coat
England

Blue Coat
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Skype for Business
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) VPN
2 13 (72.22%) Firewall
3 10 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (44.44%) DMZ
5 6 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (33.33%) Network Security
6 5 (27.78%) LAN
6 5 (27.78%) WAN
6 5 (27.78%) Wireless
7 4 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (5.56%) Skype
General
1 8 (44.44%) Banking
1 8 (44.44%) Investment Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Network Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
1 8 (44.44%) Change Control
1 8 (44.44%) Design Patterns
1 8 (44.44%) High Availability
1 8 (44.44%) ITSM
2 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CCNP
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (27.78%) CCSA
2 5 (27.78%) JNCIA
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 18 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (77.78%) Juniper
3 8 (44.44%) Fortinet
4 6 (33.33%) Palo Alto
5 4 (22.22%) F5